Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitāb fī masāʼil fiqhīyah.
[كتاب في مسائل فقهية]

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 366
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13848502
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097779540
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_366.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13848502

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Summary of points of Islamic law, dealing with acts of worship (ʻibādāt) including ablution, prayer, and fasting; the copy is missing both the beginning and the end. Pages are fragile, the copy is quite worm damaged and damp stained. Invocation in a different hand added at the end (f. 68v-69r).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied from note laid in.
   
• Kitāb fī masāʼil fiqhīyah nāqiṣ al-awwal wa-al-ākhir maktūb ṭiwāla 1200 H. (note in pencil laid in).
   

Extent

69 leaves : 188 x 127 (152 x 80) mm, bound to 210 x 132 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in quarter covers of red paper over pulpboard decorated with red and white flower patterns; red leather spine; fore-edge and bottom edge are cut raggedly.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Customs and practices
• Islamic law
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Kitāb fī masāʼil fiqhīyah].
• fol. 68v — [Invocation]